Demi Moore - Biography - IMDb Demi Moore Biography Showing all 122 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (71) | Personal Quotes (29) | Salary (13) Overview (3) 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Bio (1) Demi Moore was born on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father, Charles Foster Harmon, Sr., left her mother, Virginia Beverly (King), before Demi was born. Her stepfather, Danny Guynes, did not add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents kept on drinking, arguing and beating, until Guynes finally committed suicide. Demi quit school at age 16 to work as a pin-up-girl. At 18, she married rock musician Freddy Moore ; the marriage lasted four years. At 19, she became a regular on the soap opera General Hospital (1963) (1982-1983).

From the first salaries, she started partying and sniffing cocaine. That lasted more than three years, until director Joel Schumacher threatened to fire her from the set of St. Elmo's Fire (1985) when she turned up high. She got a withdrawal treatment and returned clean within a week... and stayed clean. With determination and a skill for publicity stunts, like the nude appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant, she made her way to fame. Thanks to the huge commercial success of Ghost (1990) and the controversial pictures Indecent Proposal (1993) and Disclosure (1994), she became Hollywood's most sought-after and most expensive actress. In 2009, Demi Moore and spouse Ashton Kutcher launched The Demi and Ashton Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization directed towards fighting child sexual slavery. Its first campaign in "Real Men Don't Buy Girls". On April 23, 2011, Demi and Ashton appeared together for their first on-air interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight (2011) to promote their foundation and start the work towards ending child sexual slavery.

The foundation's website enables people to educate themselves, show support and take action or make a donation. They first got involved in the issue in 2008 and that a great deal of the early work just involved starting discussions, raising awareness and creating urgency. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Zoerner < Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> / rob clement Spouse (3) Trivia (71) Hired three cameramen to videotape the birth of her first child. Bruce and Demi announce they are ending their marriage of eleven years. No reasons given. [June 1998] Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1996] Was once engaged to Emilio Estevez . She posed nude while seven months pregnant with daughter Scout LaRue Willis for a 1991 Vanity Fair magazine cover. In August 1992, she again posed nude for Vanity Fair, this time wearing body paint that resembled a man's suit.

Stripped on Late Show with David Letterman (1993), allegedly to disprove rumors that she's too fat for her new movie Striptease (1996). Owns a production company: "Moving Pictures". She appeared in John Parr 's music video "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)". Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38. In order to play a coke addict, Jules, in St. Elmo's Fire (1985), she had to sign a contract stipulating that she would stop her own alcohol and drug abuse, an agreement that caused her life to turn around. Was one of three finalists for the lead in Flashdance (1983). No one could decide between the three, so a group of about 50 men were brought into a room, shown the three audition tapes and asked who they would want to sleep with the most. Jennifer Beals won by a landslide. Was replaced by Sandra Bullock for the lead in While You Were Sleeping (1995). Operations on her left eye during childhood caused her to wear a patch.

First actress to reach 10 million dollar salary mark. Aunt of actors Cooper Guynes and Oliver Guynes . Demi's real father, Charles Harmon, abandoned the family before she was born, which is why she didn't share his last name on her birth certificate. Continues to receive royalty checks for songs she wrote before becoming an actress. Was spoofed in the video game Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! (1996) as a hypersexual version of herself called "Dewmi (pronounced "Do Me") Moore". First job was as a bill collector. Voted #22 on VH1's Hottest Hotties. Though born in New Mexico, she spent much of her childhood in Eastern Pennsylvania. Supporter of Arsenal Football Club, and attends home games whenever she is in London. She quit school at age 16 and started working as a pin-up girl. According to an article in the now defunct Buzz magazine, she was so demanding when it came to perks and fringe benefits, her nickname around Hollywood studio executives was "Gimme Moore".

Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "brat pack", along with Judd Nelson , Mare Winningham , Anthony Michael Hall , Andrew McCarthy , Rob Lowe , Molly Ringwald , Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy . The only Brat Packer to become a huge and long-lasting movie star after the Brat Pack era ended. Along with Pia Zadora , Madonna , Pauly Shore and Sylvester Stallone , one of the few people who have "won" back to back awards at the Razzies in successive years. She "won" Worst Actress of 1997 for her performances in the films The Juror (1996) and Striptease (1996), then again the next year she "won" Worst Actress for her role in G.I. Jane (1997). Her wedding with Ashton Kutcher was attended by about 100 guests. Among them were ex-husband Bruce Willis , their three daughters, Ashton's best friend and co-star from That '70s Show (1998), Wilmer Valderrama , and Demi's close friend Lucy Liu .

Auditioned for (and won) the role of Jackie Templeton on General Hospital (1963) after producers put out a casting call for a " Margot Kidder / Karen Allen " type actress (both of whom were top box office stars at the time). Married Bruce Willis at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas. Little Richard presided over her wedding to Bruce Willis . Ally Sheedy was one of the bridesmaids. Attended (but did not graduate from) Fairfax High School in Los Angeles with actor/producer Byron Allen . Her ancestry includes English and Scottish. Lived next door to Nastassja Kinski when moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Her professional first name "Demi" (short for her birth name Demetria) is pronounced "deh-ME", not "DEM-ee", with emphasis on the second syllable just as in "Demetria". Her mother died from cancer in 1998 at age 54. Older half-sister of Morgan Guynes . Her mother was 18 when she had her.

In 1995, became the highest-paid actress in film history, up until that time, earning $12.5 million for Striptease (1996). Thanked by Blink 182 in the liner notes of their album "Enema of the State". Credited along with actor Daniel Morton for saving a woman's life through Twitter. Was 20th Century Fox's choice to play Katharine Clifton in The English Patient (1996). When the film's producers refused to give in on the studio's decision to cast Moore, Fox withdrew their funding. Miramax eventually picked up the film and the role was given to Kristin Scott Thomas . Auditioned for the role of Luisa Contini in Nine (2009), but Marion Cotillard was cast in the role instead. Had to drop out of A League of Their Own (1992) due to pregnancy. Lives in Los Angeles, California and Hailey, Idaho. Along with Gerard Butler , Ben Stiller , Susan Sarandon and director Paul Haggis , she visited a camp for internally displaced persons managed by Sean Penn and his Jenkins-Penn Humanitarian Relief Organization in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

[April 2010] The controversial Vanity Fair magazine cover of Moore - nude and pregnant - was photographed by Annie Leibovitz in May 1991. Had knee surgery. [February 2011] Remains friends with Daniel Morton since helping save a woman's life on Twitter together. Former publicist is Michael Levine . Showed interest in the title role in Æon Flux (2005) that Charlize Theron eventually played. Aeon creator Peter Chung disapproved of the casting of Moore. Turned down the role of Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988), which went to Jodie Foster . Met first husband Freddy Moore at the Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles when she was 16 years old. Has three younger paternal half-siblings (James, Charlotte, and Charles Jr.) who she does not have a relationship with. Gave birth to her first child at age 25, daughter Rumer Glenn Willis (aka Rumer Willis ) on August 16, 1988. Rumer's father is Demi's second ex-husband, Bruce Willis .

Gave birth to her second child at age 28, daughter Scout LaRue Willis on July 20, 1991. Scout's father is Demi's second ex-husband, Bruce Willis . Gave birth to her third child at age 31, daughter Tallulah Belle Willis on February 3, 1994. Tallulah's father is Demi's second ex-husband, Bruce Willis . Separated from her third husband of 6 years Ashton Kutcher . [November 2011] (December 21, 2012) Third husband Ashton Kutcher filed for divorce after a 13 month separation and 7 years of marriage. A huge fan of Susan Boyle . When Moore enthused about her on Twitter, the millions who followed helped to turn Boyle into a global megastar. Sadly, Boyle didn't know much about Moore and nothing about Moore's husband Ashton Kutcher . Spokeswoman/model for Ann Taylor clothing store chain. [August 2011] Is a (raw) vegan.

Has been romantically linked with Leonardo DiCaprio , Colin Farrell , Timothy Hutton , Pedro Aguinaga , Martin Henderson , Anthony Kiedis , Tobey Maguire , Harry Morton , Peter Morton , Will Hanigan , Guy Oseary , Alex Rodríguez , Thomas Jane , Owen Wilson , Dweezil Zappa and Vito Schnabel . Dated martial arts instructor Oliver Whitcomb from 1999 to 2002. Is an avid doll collector and keeps a separate residence in Idaho to house her 2,000 vintage dolls. Was part owner of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. Fan of Rita Hayworth and the movie Gilda (1946). Recorded a five-track demo tape in 1982 under the guidance of music producer Greg Penny and almost got a deal from RCA records. Appeared in a 1986 stage play with Robin Bartlett called "The Early Girl" at Circle Repertory Theatre in New York. Brought into fashion the women's pixie cut, a hairstyle she debuted for photographers at the Beverly Hills premiere of When Harry Met Sally... (1989) in July 1989.

When Ghost (1990) was released in the summer of 1990, millions of women emulated this short, boy-like crop. Rented out Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, Ca. for her 29th birthday in 1991. Personal Quotes (29) All you need is for some of these things to appear in print a couple of times and people start to believe it. I think what really is happening is that the only way the media can allow me to be smart and ambitious is by making me a bitch. The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive. Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.

On the changes made to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's "The Scarlet Letter" (she starred in the adaptation): In truth, not very many people have read the book...the ultimate message of "Hester Prynne" would have been lost if we'd stayed with the original ending. I didn't want to work and drag my kids with me while they were trying to cross this huge transition. I wanted them to become as stable and as confident as possible. There are people who go through this and don't have the financial means, but I did. It wasn't a risk; it was the right thing to do. Once you've tasted a bit of success, it's more challenging. We have to continue to be willing to take a risk so that we don't get too safe. Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. So the better place to keep yourself in is out of your comfort zone, willing to try even at the risk of failing. And that's not natural to me at all. In fact, it's completely unnatural. I think we all want the same things.

We all want to feel loved, and feel a part of something, but we all have self-doubt no matter where we came from. [on plastic surgery] It's completely false, I've never had it done. It's a way to combat your neurosis. The scalpel won't make you happy. For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look thirty. [to Susan Boyle ] You have nothing to lose - just keep sharing your light. I don't think anyone could imagine it, but with Redford, all of a sudden, I was very shy and more self-conscious. This was THE Robert Redford and he's a kind of shy and reserved guy. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. [on her approach to acting] It's 100 percent instinct. I haven't had years of learning in acting class. It just didn't go that way for me. Not because I ever felt I was so wonderful I didn't need it. I'm sure I could use plenty of guidance. Actually, I was too insecure to want to take that path.

I always just felt that if I got in a class and somebody said, 'Boy, you're really not good, and maybe you should consider something else,' I would have had to, and I thought that if I could fake it long enough maybe I could figure it out. There's that old saying, 'Fake it until you make it,' and I think I might have been skating on that thin ice for a while in the hope nobody would find me out. I never even really had the ability to put myself in that kind of learning situation until right before I did Ghost (1990), when I worked in New York with a teacher named Harold Guskin . I enjoyed it, but being in a class would probably still be intimidating for me. The press is a big machine that runs of its own will, and to fight against it would take too much of my focus and my energy. All I can really do is try to find the safest way I can to use the press for positive things - promoting what I love, the movies I make. The rest of it, even though sometimes it hurts, sometimes it's disappointing, sometimes it's unjust, I just don't want to get caught up in it.

I've seen what the press does to other stars, and I know I'm no exception. Everybody has their day. Sometimes it's a good time for you in the press, sometimes it's just your turn to get hit. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, no matter what you're doing or how hard you're working. Except you do see that sometimes it comes like the tide - if it's been a really good time for you, the press starts looking for reasons to bring you down, and if you're really down it seems as if they start to jump on a bandwagon so they can be the creators and bring you back. So I just try to ride the wave. I do take a stand about how a scene should be played. I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts. I have no obligation to be politically correct. [on About Last Night... (1986)] Some of the critics didn't like the happy ending. But there was no way you could have any other ending on that movie. After building up compassion for the characters, to just throw it away with an unhappy ending would have been stupid.

[on working with Michael Caine in Flawless (2007), 2008] Fantastic. I have to say, I've certainly grown in having a greater appreciation for who he is. I realized actually, when I was 20 when I did the film ( Blame It on Rio (1984)) playing his daughter, we didn't have the resource to be able to watch his films like we have today. Young actors now can go back and find everything. For me to have really been that familiar, I would've had to go to those arthouses and really waited to get that little sliver. So now I really have a greater appreciation, which hopefully we do as we get older anyway. [on women in combat] If there are women, whatever that percentage might be - two percent, five percent - if they have the desire, if they have the ability to match up on an equal standard, then I think we want them there, because that just means somebody's found what they're supposed to do in their lifetime that they're good at. And if they have the passion to create that kind of commitment to be there, why shouldn't they be?

[on 1950s anti-abortion laws depicted in her film, If These Walls Could Talk (1996)] The shame and degradation that these women faced - that is really what is criminal. [1985, on being dubbed a member of the "Brat Pack"] I hate it! I find it embarrassing, hateful and demeaning. I used to say that I attended 48 schools, but I think it's something over 30. I attended six high schools, and I always had at least two schools in every grade. Sometimes I made three moves in one grade. My shortest stay was two months. [2005] In his own way, Ashton is romantic. We were apart for awhile, and he phoned me and said he'd shaved his leg. One leg. Because then at night, he said, it's like sleeping with a woman when he rubs against himself. Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person. There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

[at a briefing on Domestic Sex Trafficking in Washington D.C., 5/4/10] As long as one person is enslaved, we are all enslaved. As long as we continue to allow these young women to be criminalized, the message we're putting out is that women and girls can be bought ... It's time that we bring the dirty little secret out into the open. There was a point in my career that I was being encouraged to do a film for what felt like the wrong reasons, which were for monetary reasons. But I had an overwhelming sense of intuition that it wasn't right, that it felt unsafe, that there were elements that really just were wrong. And what's interesting is, I didn't follow my intuition. I allowed myself to be persuaded. And the biggest part of why that was created is that I didn't have enough self-confidence or trust in my own information. [presenting Ghost (1990) at the ArcLight Hollywood, April 2013] It's something that touches people's heart, it transcends and has comforted people's soul in great loss and it has instilled a sense of hope and magic that those we love are always still with us.

I'm truly grateful to have been part of this film, and I'm honored to be sharing with you tonight. I thank AFI and Target for bringing together this magical night for you to see it on the big screen. I'm sure there was a huge boon in pottery classes that they hadn't seen since macrame, Birkenstocks, and hairy legs were in fashion! Salary (13) From The Small Screen To The Big Screen: 21 Actors Who Got Their Big Break On TV Soaps | Radar Online Yes, please sign me up to receive The Daily Juice Privacy Policy send Guess Who! From The Small Screen To The Big Screen: 21 Actors Who Got Their Big Break On TV Soaps Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Share Thank you for subscribing! 1 of 22 They may be big names now but did you know that many of Hollywood’s most successful actors got their big break in soap operas? Here is a list of a few stars who went from small screen success to big screen glory. G G Back in the ‘90s Meg Ryan shared the crown for America’s Sweetheart with Julia Roberts.

But the “When Harry Met Sally” star actually made a name for herself from 1982 to 1984 playing Betsy Stewart in “As The World Turns.” Five years after she left, she was faking an orgasm on the big screen. G G Before she was Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar played Kendall Hart – the long-lost daughter of Susan Lucci’s character Erica Kane – in All My Children. G G Movie fans got their first proper glimpse of Brad Pitt when he played a roguish hitchhiker in the 1991 classic “Thelma & Louise.” But hardcore daytime soap fans would have spotted the actor four years earlier when he made his TV debut in two episodes of “Another World.” G G Yes, Demi Moore was a key player in Hollywood’s Brat Pack. But before she appeared in movie hits like “St. Elmo’s Fire,” she played investigative reporter Jackie Templeton in “General Hospital” in the early 1980s. G G Eva Longoria got her break on a couple of daytime soap operas.

She made a guest appearance on “General Hospital” in 2000 before joining the cast of “The Young and The Restless” as Isabella Brana in 2001. Eva left the series in 2003 and went on to become a household name by playing Gabrielle Solis in “Desperate Housewives” a year later. G G Ryan Philippe became a household name when he appeared in the movie Cruel Intentions with his future wife – and now ex – wife Reese Witherspoon in 1999. Ryan Philippe became a household name when he appeared in the movie Cruel Intentions with his future wife – and now ex – wife Reese Witherspoon in 1999. But in the early ‘90s the blond actor was better known to “One Life to Live” fans as Billy Douglas – the first gay teen on a daytime soap. G G Josh Duhamel is another Hollywood heartthrob who honed his craft in a daytime soap opera. The future “Transformers” star played lovesick Leo du Pres in “All My Children” from 1999 until his character’s death in 2002.

When he returned, briefly, in 2011 to appear in a dream sequence he told Entertainment Weekly: “[I]t was just my way of saying thank you to go back and do an episode.” G G Only people of a certain age will remember the now defunct soap Santa Barbara. Back in 1990 former child star Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in one episode of the once popular series. G G The list of movies that Kevin Bacon has been in is astonishing. But before he was cutting a rug in Footloose or keeping fans gripped in Mystic River or his current hit series The Following, he worked on two daytime soaps. In 1979 he appeared in Search For Tomorrow, before appearing in seven Guiding Light episodes in the early ‘80s. G G Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei appeared in two episodes of As the World Turns before she got her real big break, playing opposite Lisa Bonet in the sitcom A Different World. G G Clearly As The World Turns was the place to be in the 1980s.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay actress Julianne Moore played two half-sisters – Frannie and Sabrina Hughes – in several episodes of the soap in 1985 and 1986. G G Goodfella Ray Liotta is another daytime soap veteran. He played Joey Perrini in Another World in the early 1980s. G G Back in the 1970s Susan Sarandon appeared in two daytime soaps, Search for Tomorrow and A World Apart. G G Tommy Lee Jones is another Oscar winner who has soap under his belt. The No Country for Old Men actor appeared in two episodes of One Life To Live back in the 1970s. G G Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has done it all in his career. Not only has he shared a screen with a talking car in Knight Rider, he played a doctor – William ‘Snapper’ Foster – in The Young and the Restless from 1975 to 1982 and again, briefly, in 2010. G G Darth Vader was in a soap opera? Really? Yes, James Earl Jones played Dr.

Jim Frazier in an episode of Guiding Light back in 1966. G G The Help’s Cicely Tyson briefly played Martha Frazier, the wife of James Earl Jones, in Guiding Light back in the ‘60s. G G The late Larry Hagman will forever be associated in our minds with the role of J.R. Ewing in Dallas and as Anthony Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie decades before that. But in 1957 he appeared in the series Search for Tomorrow – a long forgotten soap that went off the air in 1986. G G In the mid-1970s – before he donned the red cape to become Superman – Christopher Reeve played Ben Harper in the series Love of Life. G G Known around the world as his most popular character Dr. Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer actually played a physician long before he stepped into the bar on the sitcom Cheers. In the mid-1980s he briefly played Dr. Canard in Another World. Death, coma or the revolving door trick: what now for Ridge? Death, coma or the revolving door trick: what now for Ridge?

RIP Ronn as Ridge Daytime television is a ruthless business. Just ask Days of Our Lives character Tommy Horton who, in 1980, went up to the attic to retrieve his skis and never returned. Or The Young and the Restless' Jill Abbott, who has been played by so many actresses across such a revolving door of actresses it's difficult to remember what she actually looks like*. As the world came to grips yesterday with news that The Bold and the Beautiful will lose its boldest and most beautiful - dashing Ridge Forrester, played by actor Ronn Moss - the question must now be asked: what will be Ridge's eventual fate? Related Content Death? Coma? Abduction by Prince Omar, the nefarious demi-villain who once abducted the lippy, lovestruck Dr Taylor Hayes? Or worse, a bit more plastic surgery than usual and the indignity of being replaced by a new actor? It appears the last of those options - the old revolving door trick - is the most likely. Advertisement Bradley Bell, the head writer of The Bold and The Beautiful told US media yesterday that Ridge Forrester will not be killed off. "Ridge will not be dead or presumed dead," he said.

"He will just not be in the picture. Ridge is a pivotal part of the show and he will be back in a matter of time ... and probably not all that much time. SHARE Link Moss on the set of The Bold and the Beautiful with Katherine Kelly Lang. But the soap opera revolving door is a risk. And not all re-casts are successful, particularly when you're dealing with an iconic character and an audience as loyal as The Bold and The Beautiful's. In Australia, the 1970s soap Number 96 replaced Abigail with Vicki Raymond but the audience didn't buy it and the character was written out shortly after. There will be a period of time without Ridge, which is where some new, interesting avenues for Brooke will come into play. But at some point it will be necessary for Ridge to return to the show Similarly, audiences didn't respond to the decision by Dallas producers to replace Barbara Bel Geddes - the show's iconic matriarch, Miss Ellie - with Donna Reed. A year later Bel Geddes was back on the show. * in the greatest soap tradition, this statement may be overblown. In fact only three actresses have played Jill: Brenda Dickson, Deborah Adair and Jess Walton.

Who could be the new Ridge? Kevin Bacon Soap opera pedigree: played TJ Werner on Guiding Light. Suggested plot twist: Ridge been exploring the poncho factories of South America and playing Six Degrees of Ridge Forrester before returning to LA to take revenge. Leonardo DiCaprio Soap opera pedigree: played young Mason Capwell on Santa Barbara. Suggested plot twist: Ridge leaves LA on a cruise liner which sinks. After kicking Kate Winslet off a bit of wreckage, he floats back to LA to take revenge. Tommy Lee Jones Soap opera pedigree: played Dr Mark Toland on One Life to Live. Suggested plot twist: Ridge leaves LA for a job with the Men In Black agency, protecting earth against aliens. He then returns to LA to take revenge. Demi Moore Soap opera pedigree: played Jackie Templeton in General Hospital. Suggested plot twist: Ridge travels to Norway for a sex change operation and jaw transplant, before returning to LA - with boobs - to take revenge. Brad Pitt Soap opera pedigree: played Chris on Another World. Suggested plot twist: Ridge leaves LA, marries Madonna, adopts a dozen children, changes his name to Ridge Von Trapp and returns to LA to take revenge.

David Hasselhoff Soap opera pedigree: played Dr Snapper Foster on The Young and The Restless. Suggested plot twist: Ridge leaves LA and becomes a middle-aged lifeguard with a worrying paunch, before returning to LA to take revenge. Stars Who Got Their Start on Soap Operas | InStyle.com Stars Who Got Their Start on Soap Operas Stars Who Got Their Start on Soap Operas Everett Collection 1. Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Plucked from the stage of a school production of The Ugly Ducking, Kelly Ripa was advised to pursue professional acting-and it paid off. After scoring a role on the USA Network’s Dance Party USA, she got her big break on All My Children as the troubled Hayley Vaughan. “What I like about Hayley is that she’s not a quitter. She may sometimes feel like giving up, but I have this sense that she never will,” Ripa said back then. In addition to three Daytime Emmy nominations, Ripa found love on the set when her character was coupled with the sexy Mark Consuelos’ Mateo Santos. In real life, the two dated for a year before secretly eloping in Las Vegas.

After 12 years on AMC, Kelly moved on to co-host Live with Regis amp Kelly and raise a family that includes kids Michael, Lola, and Joaquin. -Bronwyn Barnes, with reporting by Maggie Chong Roger Karnbad/Celebrity 2. Brad Pitt These days he's strutting the red carpet at Cannes with partner Angelina Jolie, but back in the 80's Brad Pitt had a small recurring role as Chris on Another World. “It was real sweaty-palms time for me,” Pitt has said of his first on-screen kiss at his other acting gig, the nighttime drama Dallas. Pitt supplemented bit parts with odd jobs like dressing up as a chicken for El Pollo Loco until he made a huge leap forward when he landed a part in the chick flick, Thelma amp Louise alongside Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon. Since his breakthrough, he has starred in blockbusters like Interview with the Vampire, Fight Club, and Mr. amp Mrs. Smith. ABC Photo Archives 3. Demi Moore In 1982, 19 year-old Demi Moore landed her first big acting role on General Hospital, beating out 1,000 other actresses for the job.

Her character, Jackie Templeton, had a red-hot romance with the GH hunk Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary. Still, Moore's future husband, Ashton Kutcher, couldn't have been too jealous of their onscreen chemistry-he was only 4 years old at the time. Moore left GH in 1983 and went on to star in Blame It on Rio and St. Elmo’s Fire, eventually landing her big break in Ghost. Her key to such a successful career? Self-discipline. “It's the key to everything,” she has said. “I believe it down to my core. If there is structure, you can do anything.” Everett Collection 4. Meg Ryan Born Margaret Mary Emily Hyra, Meg Ryan has been known by many names-and many looks-most notably Sally Albright (in When Harry Met Sally), Annie Reed (in Sleepless in Seattle), and Kathleen Kelly (in You’ve Got Mail). But her first notable character was Betsy Stewart Andropolous, the girl searching for love in all the wrong places on As the World Turns. Ryan’s soap role was the launching pad for her career-she went on to star in many box office hits and collect three Golden Globe nominations along the way.

This month, the blonde beauty joins leading ladies Annette Bening and Eva Mendes in the flick The Women. ABC/Everett Collection 5. Josh Duhamel Former All My Children star Josh Duhamel might engaged to girlfriend Fergie, but plenty of fans still indulge their guilty pleasures by watching him on reruns of the soap. He made girls weak in the knees when he joined the daytime drama in 1999 as Leo du Pres, winning a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 2002. “I was totally blown away that he was able to learn the lines. He didn't even like giving speeches in class," Duhamel's mom has said. Duhamel later moved on to nighttime TV in NBC’s Las Vegas and has been a hit at the box office in films like Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and Transformers. Ann Limongello/ABC 6. Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar booked her first commercial at the tender age of four. From there it was only up for the actress, who snagged a role on All My Children as Susan Lucci’s meddlesome daughter in 1993.

At 18, Gellar won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress, but at times her budding career was difficult. “I was on All My Children while trying to graduate from high school. Do you go to sleep-overs or to auditions?” the starlet has said of life as a child actor. “Even when she was a teenager, she seemed in her 30s," fellow former AMC star Kelly Ripa has said. "I always thought, 'When I grow up, I want to be like Sarah,' and she was younger than me!” Gellar’s sophistication later landed her roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Scooby-Doo. Everett Collection 7. John Stamos “I started on General Hospital when I was 18, but I was still flipping burgers at my dad's restaurant. He wouldn't let me quit!" John Stamos has said of his start in the soap biz.

"People would come in and say, ‘Aren't you on General Hospital?’ and I'd say, ‘No.’” Coming onto the scene as Blackie Parrish on GH in 1981, Stamos became so popular that he started receiving 10,000 fan letters a week. He stayed for two years before moving on to become the Uncle Jesse on the family sitcom, Full House. When that show ended, he toured with the Beach Boys, starred on Broadway and, most recently, landed in the ER as the gorgeous Dr. Gates. NBC/Globe 8. Julianne Moore Julianne Moore got the chance to play the classic good twin, evil twin soap role when she starred as both Frannie and Sabrina Hughes on As the World Turns. Moore-formerly Julie Smith-moved to New York in 1983 and two years later landed her job playing British and American half sisters with two distinct personalities. The roles won Moore a daytime Emmy for Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series in 1988. “If you're going to do a soap, you always want to play twins.

But then you learn that there’s nothing more boring than acting with yourself, because you know what's going to happen,” Moore has said. The Emmy Award-winning actress went on to become an Academy Award nominee for four films, including The Hours and Far From Heaven. CBS/Soap Opera Weekly 9. Ricky Martin Known as “Kiki” to close friends and relatives, Puerto Rican native Ricky Martin has made girls go crazy with songs like “Livin' La Vida Loca” and “Shake Your Bon Bon.” But Martin was first known as hospital orderly Miguel Morez on General Hospital. “What I love about doing a soap opera character is that you can never be sure what will happen to him next,” The Menudo alum said back then. After two years on the show, Martin left to star in Les Miserables on Broadway. The multi-talented singer then went on to release albums that have catapulted him to international fame. ABC Photo Archives 10. Ryan Phillippe At the age of 17, Ryan Phillippe embarked on a venture that no daytime actor had ever taken on before. Starring as Billy Douglas on One Life to Live, Phillippe played the first gay teenager on a daytime soap.

Reflecting on the experience, Phillippe has said “When I auditioned, I had no idea Billy was gay. They told me, and I said ‘Oh! Okay!’ but a shock went through my system. But I realized that maybe this role is where I’m supposed to be.” Phillippe has also commented on the acting skills he gained during Billy’s coming-out scene, which was “the first time ever that I didn’t have to force tears. My voice went all quivery and they flowed out of me.” From daytime drama, the actor went on to star in Cruel Intentions, Crash, and the Oscar nominated Flags of Our Fathers. Demi Moore Ghost, Indecent Proposal, Striptease, G.I. Jane, Bobby, LOL Date of Birth: November 11, 1962 Place of Birth: Roswell, New Mexico, USA Height: 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Birth Name: Demetria Gene Guynes Demi Guynes Kutcher, known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, film producer, film director, former songwriter, and model.

Demi Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue an acting career, and posed for a nude pictorial in Oui magazine in 1980. After making her film debut in 1981, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and subsequently gained attention for her roles in Blame It on Rio (1984) and St. Elmo’s Fire (1985). Her first film to become both a critical and commercial hit was About Last Night (1986), which established her as a Hollywood star. In 1990, Moore starred in Ghost, the highest-grossing film of that year, which brought her a Golden Globe nomination. She had a string of additional box-office successes over the early 1990s with A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Disclosure (1994). In 1996, Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history when she was paid a then-unprecedented fee of $12.5 million to star in Striptease. The high-profile disappointment of that film as well as her next, G.I.

Jane (1997), was followed by a lengthy hiatus and significant downturn in Moore’s career, although she has remained a subject of substantial media interest during the years since. Moore took her professional name from her first husband, musician Freddy Moore, and is the mother of three daughters from her second marriage to actor Bruce Willis . She married her third husband, actor Ashton Kutcher , in 2005, and separated from him in November 2011. 2. Early life Demi Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico. Prior to Moore’s birth, her biological father, Air Force man Charles Harmon, Sr. left her mother, Virginia King, after a two-month marriage. When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, a newspaper advertising salesman, he did not add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times; as a result, the family moved many times. As a curious note, her ancestry includes English and Scottish. She was named Demetria after a shampoo that her mother saw in a magazine. Virginia was age 18 when she had her.

Moore said in 1991, “My dad was Dan Guynes. He raised me. There is a man who would be considered my biological father who I don’t really have a relationship with.” Moore learned of him at age 13, when she found her mother and stepfather’s marriage certificate and inquired about the circumstances since “I saw my parents were married in February 1963. I was born in ’62.” The parents kept on drinking, arguing and beating. Dan Guynes committed suicide in October 1980 at age 37, two years after divorcing Moore’s mother. Moore’s biological father appeared on Inside Edition in 1995, making an appeal to see his grandchildren. Virginia Guynes had a long record of arrests for crimes, including drunk driving and arson. Moore broke off contact with her in 1990, when Guynes walked away from a rehab stay Moore had paid for at the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota.

Guynes later embarrassed her daughter by posing nude for the low-end magazine High Society in 1993, where she spoofed Moore’s controversial Vanity Fair pregnancy and bodypaint covers, and parodied her love scene from the film Ghost. Moore and Guynes briefly reconciled shortly before Virginia died from cancer in 1998 at the age of 54. Moore has a maternal half-brother, Morgan Guynes, who in 1988 was a U.S. Marine stationed in North Carolina, and gave her away at her wedding the previous year; two paternal half-brothers, Charles Harmon Jr. and James Craig Harmon who in 2006 was sentenced to 10 years in jail for aggravated assault; and a paternal half-sister, Charlotte Harmon Eggar, who in 2012 said she had not seen Moore in 30 years. Moore was cross-eyed as a child; this was ultimately corrected by two surgeries. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction. At age 15, Moore moved to West Hollywood, California, where her mother worked for a magazine-distribution company.

Moore attended Fairfax High School there, and recalled, “I moved out of my family’s house when I was 16 and left high school in my junior year.” Demi quit school at age 16 to work as a pin-up-girl. She worked at a debt collection agency and had a stint as a pin-up girl in Europe upon signing with the Elite Modeling Agency, then enrolled in drama classes after being inspired by her neighbor, 17-year-old German actress Nastassja Kinski. At 19, she became a regular on the soap opera General Hospital. From the first salaries, she started partying and sniffing cocaine. That lasted more than three years, until director Joel Schumacher threatened to fire her from the set of St. Elmo’s Fire when she turned up high. She got a withdrawal treatment and returned clean within a week; and stayed clean. With determination and a skill for publicity stunts, like the nude appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant, she made her way to fame. Thanks to the huge commercial success of Ghost and the controversial pictures Indecent Proposal and Disclosure, she’s Hollywood’s most sought-after and most expensive actress. 3.

Personal life In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday, Moore met rock musician Freddy Moore at the Los Angeles nightclub The Troubadour. Freddy Moore was married to another woman at that time. On February 8, 1980, at 18, she married Freddy Moore, 12 years her senior, and moved into an apartment in West Hollywood; the marriage lasted four years. Before their marriage, Demi had already begun using Freddy’s surname as her stage name. She filed for divorce in September 1984; it was finalized on August 7, 1985. Following her divorce from Freddy Moore, Moore was engaged to actor Emilio Estevez. The pair had planned to marry in December 1986, but called off the engagement. On November 21, 1987, Moore married her second husband, actor Bruce Willis at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas.

She stated on her marriage license that this was her first marriage, explaining in an interview the following year, “I did it only because I thought it was going to take longer if I put that [first marriage] on there.” Demi Moore and Bruce Willis have three daughters together: Rumer (born August 16, 1988), Scout (born July 20, 1991), and Tallulah (born February 3, 1994). The couple separated on June 24, 1998, but did not file for divorce until October 18, 2000. Their divorce was finalized one day after the filing. On January 28, 1998, Moore and Willis sued their former nanny, Kim Tannahill, in a U.S. district court in Blaine County, Idaho, claiming she billed them for personal expenses, reneged on some $8,000 worth of loans and spoke about their private lives in violation of a confidentiality agreement. The couple sought at least $300,000 in damages.

On February 2, 1998, Tannahill filed a countersuit in a Los Angeles Superior Court. In that lawsuit, Tannahill claimed that she was subjected to “intimidation, threats and force,” and accused Moore of locking her in a bedroom for a two-hour “verbal beating” upon firing her in August 1997, quoting Moore as saying “It’s scary what I could do to you.” Tannahill’s lawsuit was thrown out by a federal judge in April 1998, while the suit filed by Moore and Willis was settled out of court. Moore had a longstanding relationship with martial arts instructor Oliver Whitcomb, whom she dated from 1999 to 2002. In May 2003, Moore was sued by the former manager of her Idaho ranch, Lawrence Bass, for sexual harassment and discrimination. Bass sought more than $250,000 in damages, claiming in his lawsuit that Moore approached him in the same manner as did her character with Michael Douglas in the 1994 film Disclosure, then fired him, months later, after he had turned down her advances.

Bass, who also filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Idaho’s Human Rights Commission, had been the subject of seven restraining orders, was arrested in 1998 for domestic abuse, and was wanted for failing to answer a five-count criminal harassment complaint against him. Idaho state investigators ruled there was “no probable cause” to support his allegations against Moore. The case was dismissed in February 2004. Moore filed a countersuit against Bass, who served a 10-day jail sentence for civil contempt. Also in 2003, Moore began dating actor Ashton Kutcher , who is 15 years her junior. They married on September 24, 2005. The wedding was attended by about 150 close friends and family of the couple, including her ex-husband Bruce Willis , their three daughters, Ashton’s best friend and co-star from That ’70s Show, Wilmer Valderrama , and Demi’s close friend Lucy Liu. In November 2011, after months of media speculation about the state of the couple’s marriage, Moore announced her decision to end her marriage to Kutcher.

After over a year of separation, Kutcher filed for divorce from Moore on December 21, 2012 in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. Moore filed her response papers in March 2013, requesting spousal support and payment of legal fees from Kutcher. In 2009, Demi Moore and spouse Ashton Kutcher launched The Demi and Ashton Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization directed towards fighting child sexual slavery. Its first campaign in “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls”. On April 23, 2011, Demi and Ashton appeared together for their first on-air interview on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” to promote their foundation and start the work towards ending child sexual slavery. The foundation’s website enables people to educate themselves, show support and take action or make a donation. They first got involved in the issue in 2008 and that a great deal of the early work just involved starting discussions, raising awareness and creating urgency.

In November 2012, the foundation said it was announcing “a new name and refined mission” as Thorn, which aimed “to disrupt and deflate the predatory behavior of those who abuse and traffic children, solicit sex with children or create and share child pornography”. Demi Moore owns a production company: “Moving Pictures”. As a curious note, her professional first name “Demi” (short for her birth name Demetria) is pronounced “deh-ME”, not “DEM-ee”, with emphasis on the second syllable just as in “Demetria”. She is a follower of Philip Berg’s Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated Kutcher into the faith, having said that she “didn’t grow up Jewish, but … would say that [she has] been more exposed to the deeper meanings of particular rituals than any of [her] friends that did.” According to The New York Times, Moore is “the world’s most high-profile doll collector,” and among her favorites is the Gene Marshall fashion doll. At one point, Moore kept a separate residence to house her 2,000 dolls.

While she landed on PETA’s Worst-Dressed List in 2009 for wearing fur, two years later she supported the group’s efforts to ban circus workers’ use of bullhooks on elephants. 4. Career Demi Moore co-wrote three songs with Freddy Moore and appeared in the music video for their “It’s Not a Rumor,” performed by his band The Nu Kats. She continues to receive royalty checks from her brief songwriting career (1980-1981). Moore appeared on the cover of the January 1981 issue of the adult magazine Oui, in which she posed for a series of photographs containing full frontal nudity. In a 1988 interview, Moore claimed she only posed for the cover of Oui—I was 16; I told them I was 18 and that the photos inside the issue were for a European fashion magazine. In 1990, she told another interviewer, I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover. Moore made her film debut with a supporting role in the low-budget teen drama Choices in year 1981, directed by Silvio Narizzano.

Her second feature was the 1982, 3-D science fiction/horror film Parasite, for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to find me the next Karen Allen. Moore gained greater exposure when she joined the cast of the ABC soap opera General Hospital, playing the role of Jackie Templeton from 1982 to 1983. During her tenure on the series, she made an uncredited cameo appearance in the 1982 spoof Young Doctors in Love. Demi Moore was one of three finalists for the lead in Flashdance in 1983. No one could decide between the three, so a group of about 50 men was brought into a room, shown the three audition tapes and asked who they would want to sleep with the most. Jennifer Beals won by a landslide. Moore’s film career took off in 1984 following her appearance in the sex comedy Blame It on Rio. That same year, she played the lead role in No Small Affair. Her commercial breakthrough came in Joel Schumacher’s yuppie drama St. Elmo’s Fire in 1985, which received negative reviews but was a box office success.

Because of that film, Moore was often listed as part of the Brat Pack, a label she shunned at the time. She progressed to more serious material with About Last Night… at year 1986, which marked a positive turning point in her career, as she later noted that she started to see better scripts following its release. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 4 out of 4 stars and praised her performance, writing, “There isn’t a romantic note she isn’t required to play in this movie, and she plays them all flawlessly.” The success of About Last Night… was not rivaled by Moore’s other two 1986 releases: One Crazy Summer and Wisdom, the last youth-oriented films she would star in. Moore made her professional stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of The Early Girl, which ran at the Circle Repertory Company in fall 1986. In 1988, Moore starred as a prophecy-bearing mother in the apocalyptic drama The Seventh Sign –her first outing as a solo film star.

The following year, she played the quick-witted local laundress and prostitute in Neil Jordan’s Depression-era allegory We’re No Angels, opposite Robert De Niro. Was dubbed as of the nine original members of the 1980s “brat pack“, along with Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy. However, in a 1986 interview, Moore refused the acknowledgment by stating “I don’t belong in any ‘Brat Pack'”. Her most successful film was the supernatural romantic melodrama Ghost, with Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, a sleeper hit that grossed $505 million at the box office and was the highest-grossing film of 1990. The love scene between Moore and Patrick Swayze that starts in front of a potter’s wheel as the song “Unchained Melody” plays has become an iconic moment in film history. Ghost was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moore’s performance as Molly Jensen garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination as Best Actress.

In 1991, Demi Moore co-produced and starred in the mystery thriller Mortal Thoughts with Glenne Headly and Bruce Willis , and appeared as a blonde for the first time in the romantic comedy The Butcher’s Wife, with Jeff Daniels. Both films were box-office disappointments, but Moore sustained her A-list status with her starring roles in Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in 1992; Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal alongside Robert Redford and Woody Harrelson in 1993; and Barry Levinson’s Disclosure with Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland and Caroline Goodall in 1994; all of which opened at #1 at the box office and were blockbuster hits. She posed nude while seven months pregnant with daughter Scout LaRue Willis for a 1991 Vanity Fair magazine cover. In August 1992, she again posed nude for Vanity Fair, this time wearing body paint that resembled a man’s suit. Stripped on Late Show with David Letterman on year 1993, allegedly to disprove rumors that she’s too fat for her new movie Striptease.

Later, in 1996, Demi Moore was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. By 1995, Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. She subsequently had a string of unsuccessful films starting The Scarlet Letter, with Gary Oldman and Robert Duvall, a “freely adapted” version of the historical romance novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which her portrayal of Hester Prynne was met with harsh criticism. Despite the poor reception of that film and her follow-up release, The Juror, Moore was paid a record-breaking salary of $12.5 million in 1996 to star in Striptease, with Burt Reynolds. Much hype was made about Moore’s willingness to dance topless for the part, though this was the sixth time she had shown her breasts on film. Although the film was actually a financial success—grossing over $113 million worldwide —it failed to reach expectations and was widely considered a flop. Meanwhile, she also produced and starred in a controversial miniseries for HBO called If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part anthology about abortion.

Its screenwriter, Nancy Savoca, directed two segments, including one in which Moore played a widowed nurse in the early 1950s seeking a back-alley abortion, the segment name is 1952, with her acted: Shirley Knight and Catherine Keener. For that role, Moore received a second Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress. Also in 1995 was replaced by Sandra Bullock for the lead in While You Were Sleeping. Demi Moore was 20th Century Fox’s choice to play Katharine Clifton in The English Patient at 1996. However, the film’s producers refused to give in on the studio’s decision to cast Moore, and as a result Fox backed out of the film. Eventually, the film was picked up by Miramax and the role was given to Kristin Scott Thomas, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead. Demi Moore famously shaved her head in order to play a Navy SEALS recruit in Ridley Scott’s G.I. Jane, alongside Viggo Mortensen and Anne Bancroft in 1997.

The film was a moderate box office success, but its domestic gross was only slightly more than it cost to make. During the film’s production, it was reported that Moore had ordered studio chiefs to charter two planes for her and her entourage, which reinforced her negative reputation for being a diva. After G.I. Jane, Moore took a low-profile role in Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, with Judy Davis and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, among other actors. Then left the Hollywood spotlight and moved to Hailey, Idaho on a full-time basis to devote herself to raising her three daughters. She was offscreen for three years before re-emerging in the arthouse drama Passion of Mind in 2000, the first English-language film from Belgian director Alain Berliner. Her performance was critically acclaimed, but the film itself received mixed reviews and was deemed naggingly slow by some critics. Moore then resumed her self-imposed career hiatus and continued to turn down film offers. Another three years passed before Demi Moore acted again.

She returned to the screen as the villain of the 2003 film Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, with Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Bernie Mac, but that was followed by yet another three-year absence. In the interim, Moore signed on as the face of the Versace fashion brand and then the Helena Rubinstein brand of cosmetics. In 2006, she appeared in Bobby which featured an all-star cast, including Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Joy Bryant, Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, Lindsay Lohan, Shia LaBeouf, and her husband Ashton Kutcher , although they did not appear in any scenes together. Moore reunited with Blame It on Rio co-star Michael Caine for the British crime drama Flawless, which came out in a limited release in 2008 with generally positive reviews. As of 2012, her last appearance in a widely released film was in 2007’s Mr. Brooks with Kevin Costner.

Since then, she has acted in several independent films, including the 2011 corporate drama Margin Call, with Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany and Jeremy Irons, in this movie she had a small role. She also auditioned for the role of Luisa Contini in Nine (2009), but Marion Cotillard was cast in the part instead. Demi Moore had been cast to play feminist activist Gloria Steinem in the Linda Lovelace biographical film Lovelace, but within a month of being announced for the role, she dropped out of the production in the wake of a January 23, 2012 hospitalization and what her representative called professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health. Sarah Jessica Parker took over the role. Also in 2012, she had part on the movie LOL, directed by Lisa Azuelos, she share screen with Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Douglas Booth and Miley Cyrus. In 2013 she was part of film Very Good Girls, alongside Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning. It was announced for 2014, Demi was part of Forsaken with Kiefer Sutherland. 5. Filmography

Question: In which soap did Demi Moore find fame?
Answer: General Hospital